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Instructional Level: Intermediate

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Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • What are the issues of Posture in Autism and why is it important to attend to them?

Hour 2

  • How to assess posture – in clinics and schools?

Hour 3

  • How to tailor a therapeutic approach to prevent, improve and restore abnormal posture?

Author

Dalia Zwick PT, PhD

Autism and Posture: Posture-Care and Rehab-Yoga

Autism and Posture: Posture-Care and Rehab-Yoga

3 Hours Instructional Level: Intermediate
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Description:

The information in this presentation would open clinicians to opportunity to assess and treat posture of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Individuals with ASD have a diminished perception of their body movement and postural orientation; as a result, they often sit, stand, and walk with postural impairment. Studies of the postural profile of children with ASD report a deviation from the typical age-matched population in regard to leg length discrepancy, kyphosis, lumbar scoliosis, and genu valgum.  This presentation provides a review of how to observe and record standing posture in children and adults with ASD. In this presentation therapist will learn visual observation and reporting that is based on a UK method of Posture and Posture Ability scale.  The presentation will also present yoga-based exercises that clinicians can easily implement in therapy. It will focus on prevention and improvement of abnormal posture impairments so to allow for better functional activities.

Full Course Description
The information in this presentation would open clinicians to opportunity to assess and treat posture of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Individuals with ASD have a diminished perception of their body movement and postural orientation; as a result, they often sit, stand, and walk with postural impairment. Studies of the postural profile of children with ASD report a deviation from the typical age-matched population in regard to leg length discrepancy, kyphosis, lumbar scoliosis, and genu...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to share evidence based and clinical knowledge on assessment of postural challenges of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual Disabilities (ID).  It includes suggested therapy using Posture Care and Yoga-based interventions with the goal of improving function. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize how lack of information on base body shape or postural issues in studies of Posture Control of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can change the conclusion of these studies.
  2. Recognize the important of getting information on posture and how it feels from individuals with ASD directly: "good posture" = extremely uncomfortable + sensory overload”.
  3. Identify reasons that individuals with ASD give for staying in poor posture such as kind of mindblindness Poor proprioception
  4. Recognize Kendall’s consequence of postural abnormality of progressive weakness and reduced function.
  5. Recognize Kendall’s definition of Standing Posture as a composite of the positions of all the joints of the body at any given moment, muscle balance and anatomical standing position.
  6. Recognize that UK scale of Posture and Posture Ability can be used to help therapists assess posture of a person with ASD.
  7. Identify the proper answer on different items in Posture and Posture Ability scale when assessing posture of an individual with ASD.
  8. Recognize the use of a visual art term of Contrapposto can be easily used when assessing standing posture of individual with ASD.
  9. Identify how body shape changes take place as a result of abnormal posture of a person with Leg Length Discrepancy
  10. Recognize the limited role of clinicians in the treatment of individuals on ASD and how to expand this role by attending and treating abnormal posture.

 

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to share evidence based and clinical knowledge on assessment of postural challenges of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual Disabilities (ID).  It includes suggested therapy using Posture Care and Yoga-based interventions with the goal of improving function. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize how lack of information on base body shape or postural issues in studies of Posture Control of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can change the conclusion of these studies.
  2. Recognize the important of getting information on posture and how it feels from individuals with ASD directly: "good posture" = extremely uncomfortable + sensory overload”.
  3. Identify reasons that individuals with ASD give for staying in poor posture such as kind of mindblindness Poor proprioception
  4. Recognize Kendall’s consequence of postural abnormality of progressive weakness and reduced function.
  5. Recognize Kendall’s definition of Standing Posture as a composite of the positions of all the joints of the body at any given moment, muscle balance and anatomical standing position.
  6. Recognize that UK scale of Posture and Posture Ability can be used to help therapists assess posture of a person with ASD.
  7. Identify the proper answer on different items in Posture and Posture Ability scale when assessing posture of an individual with ASD.
  8. Recognize the use of a visual art term of Contrapposto can be easily used when assessing standing posture of individual with ASD.
  9. Identify how body shape changes take place as a result of abnormal posture of a person with Leg Length Discrepancy
  10. Recognize the limited role of clinicians in the treatment of individuals on ASD and how to expand this role by attending and treating abnormal posture.

 

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Certified Athletic Trainers, Nurses

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved.

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.3 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Dalia Zwick is employed by YAI/Premier HealthCare and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

 

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Certified Athletic Trainers, Nurses

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved.

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.3 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Dalia Zwick is employed by YAI/Premier HealthCare and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

 

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.